Nicholas Ashley Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury

Nicholas Edmund Anthony AshleyCooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury Bt, also known as Nick AshleyCooper, succeeded his brother as Earl of Shaftesbury. The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury is the godson of Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, and Simon Elliot, brotherinlaw of Charles, Prince of Wales.

Nicholas AshleyCooper was born onJune 1979, in London, the son of Anthony AshleyCooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Swedishborn Christina Eva Montan . AshleyCoopers elder brother was Anthony Nils Christian AshleyCooper. His mother was the daughter of Nils Montan, the former Swedish Ambassador to Germany. Lady Shaftesbury was also a divorce with a son and daughter from her first marriage, the stepsiblings of the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury. AshleyCooper succeeded his elder brother to the earldom. The 11th Earl died onMay 2005 of a heart attack in Manhattan, New York, while visiting his younger brother, Nicholas.

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